This is going to be more or less my personal experience on the forums with a little of my opinion on some topics discussed within this post. I want to finish this off of course with how I feel, but first my experience.
Being a person who very infrequently replies to posts for whatever reason, I’m inclined so much to reply to this because I feel like I have so much yet so little to say on this topic. I’ve not been an active member on the forum for long, although I’ve been a member just browsing for a bit over a year probably closer to two years now, so I feel like I’ve been more a spectator to some of these issues brought up in this discussion while not being an active participant in them.
I browse the forums 99% of the time on mobile viewing at anything “New”(which is how I came across this post), and the few responses I’ve done on posts, usually pertaining to Scripting Support, have mostly been through my phone, so I’ve never gotten the chance to send like major script support on people’s issues. I have no personal feelings on the titles given to people through activity and likes, but I can definitely understand the issue that can arise from this on any platform, or anything really that someone can gain any status within. Of the many posts I’ve read, I can say for certain that I don’t see specific figures sticking out, excluding one singular name that unfortunately resonates negatively with me, as rather toxic, or problematic abusers of the system and it’s titles.
I heavily agree that reorganizing the forums in a way that focuses more on promoting active discussion on topics that are more relevant to the members would do nothing but benefit the community, and secondary topics of course still having their own places still presented preferably on the same page, just not obstructing the meat of the meal we’re trying to get into and digest.
Personally, I’d like Roblox to really sit down and start asking themselves, and then of course the community, just what is a good forum. I think as a community, this forum can become a much more powerful tool for not only supporting developers creating and improving their games, or learning new tricks of the trade, or even just browsing a quick update release, but forging bonds between the members. Going down the line, I think recreating the forums in a way that properly supports everyone both in craft and communal actions would be nothing short of spectacular, and the suggestions written all over this post are fine examples of improvements that should be considered if ever Roblox sits down on this subject.
My apologies for the somewhat lengthy reply that may or may not have been inconsistent in some places. So much for so little to say on this topic. 
Edit:
Apologies again for this extra tag onto my old post, but I just wanted to state this because it may be something others may be going through. I’ve never been one to use any forums on any platform whatsoever, so the term itself is essentially a mystery to me.
@Quenty defined in his post the term forum: “A forum is a place of discussion.”
I honestly have never thought of the forums or used them as that such thing, so I’ve essentially detached myself from being apart of the real solution, which is rather unfortunate because I’m not doing any better for the community than if I weren’t even on the platform. I had been using the forums exclusively as a support center built off community members, but not as a place of discussing anything, not even those issues of support. I felt almost as if I had replied to a post incorrectly, I’d be assaulted on the spot by moderation. This isn’t due to stiff ruling or anything of the sort, just the impression I developed myself due to my own actions(or lack there of) and use of the forums.
This is honestly a bit eye opening to using the forums for active discussion far beyond simple How To's, so I definitely want to thank Quenty for creating this post, and at the very least to anyone who reads, encourage you to jump into posts that appeal to you, and maybe those you are uncertain of, and start discussing. Be apart of the movement to strengthen the community, and then with this strength invoke change.
Points taken, I think your information could have gone in a very different thread and still would’ve been very useful (especially to users new to the forum, like me).